PRESALE - LEONARD! - stories by John Crawford

BRUISER ZINE 009

THIS JUST IN! LEONARD! coming to a basement show near you. LEONARD! is the voice rising from bus aisles and pulpits. LEONARD! is Cubist fracture disguised as Jugg Street myth. LEONARD! is grief with its own strange momentum. LEONARD! is friendship burning quick, gone faster. LEONARD! is the annex, the church, the maison d’hôtes la Bastide Beaudinard.

LEONARD! is smudge as the ordinary condition. LEONARD! is the city down there. LEONARD! is the line you walk when there’s none to be found. LEONARD! is the debut collection from Baltimore writer John Crawford. LEONARD! rules.

“With LEONARD!, Crawford weaves together streams of consciousnesses into six wild stories. Glue-eating oddballs cruise Schwinns down streets that smell like vindaloo burgers. A priest pads his resume for a future run at a city comptroller gig. The ghost of David Koch Past creeps into a bedroom to yawp. Crawford's characters talk and think, dream and scheme right at you in a bouncy, intimate, hepcat rhythm which finally fuses into a gonzo vernacular all his own.”
- Jon Doughboy, legendary figure of online lit

"John Crawford serves six dope testers from the streets of Baltimore in the form of witty short stories with language that's authentic and all kinds of wild characters you won't forget. Crawford is a writer to look out for."
- David Simmons, author of GHOSTS OF EAST BALTIMORE and ERADICATOR

“Crawford’s prose offers an immersive sense of world-building. Leonard is a glimmer through the cracks into an entire literary city.”
- KKUURRTT, author of GOOD AT DRUGS and POP!